We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
From John le Carre
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
A committee is an animal with four back legs.
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
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